“I guessed you must have felt that you are not sick, so not only you won’t come to see the doctors, you will also avoid me, so I took action first.”Luna was so furious her eyes widened.“Joshua! I have already told you that I’m not sick! My mental health is in great condition. You and Fiona are the ones who have a mental disorder. I will never have a mental breakdown!”“However, the Luna I know, without a mental disorder, would not abuse Nigel.”Luna gasped, “I didn't do it!”“Then, how did the bruises on Nigel come about? He hit himself?” Joshua’s voice was cold and indifferent.“I’m on the way to Blue Bay Villa with Dr. Robert Jenson and his medical team. Since you’re not willing to see us, we’ll go to you. If in the end, your mental condition is normal, we won’t do anything to you.”Then, Joshua directly hung up.Luna was thunderstruck. She could not move. Her blood froze.Robert Jenson.Joshua was going to bring Robert Jenson’s medical team to diagnose her mental state!
Luna also wanted to know the answer to Fiona’s question. She cocked her ears and listened to the sounds outside. She breathed cautiously as if she was afraid that if she breathed heavily, she would miss out on hearing Joshua’s answer.After a long time, Joshua’s low and indifferent voice came from outside. “If she’s sick, I’ll treat her. If it’s serious, I’ll send her to the hospital.”Luna closed her eyes. Her heart sank instantly. The hospital that Joshua mentioned was no ordinary hospital. It was the prison-like mental asylum that locked up Aura and Bonnie previously.She bit her lips. Her hands were tied up together. Her fingernails dug into her flesh. She was bleeding, but Luna could not feel it.The despair in her heart washed over her. The mental asylum was tightly guarded. Even a criminal like Jason Lane could not even escape! If she was locked up, would she still have her freedom? Nigel, Nellie, as well as Neil and Theo. She would not be able to do anything in the future
Actually, Neil did not know whether this woman has a mental illness or not. Aura told him that she had mental issues and abused her son daily, but her son was secretly bearing through it, not planning on telling others. That was why Aura got him to help out.At that time, he did not even know who Luna was, but he did it still. However, a few nights back, when he saw her walking alone under the heavy rain, he still could not help but get her to get in the car.Later on, he also chatted with this woman. He felt that this woman was not the type who would suddenly be depressed and turn violent, hitting people. At that moment, she said she was about to be locked up in a mental asylum…“S-Since you don’t have the time, it’s fine, then.”Neil was silent for a while. In the end, he sighed and said, “I hope you get well soon, pretty lady.”Luna opened her mouth. The words she wanted to say were still stuck in her throat, yet the disconnecting tone already came from her phone.She was
Luna lifted her head and looked at Robert in front of her. He had a head full of grey hair. He looked stern and noble, there was compassion in between his brows.However, who would have thought that such a great doctor in the medical field would deliberately make a mistake killing Violet and her father just to be with Janice? His heart was despicable. It was so disgusting it was nauseating! However, even if Luna hated him, she still had to bow down to him at that moment.She pursed her lips and looked at the middle-aged man in front of her with a feeble gaze.“Old Mr. Jenson, I think there is still room for discussion.” Luna sniffled her nose and moved her tied-up limbs a little. “What you want, I can actually…”“I have already gotten what I want.”Robert adjusted his golden-rimmed spectacles, he smiled evilly and arrogantly.“All these years, the thing I mattered the most was Janice’s parents looking down on me because of our age difference. I did not get to marry the person
Luna bit her lips. Despair washed over her in waves.If she could not get Robert to prove that Fiona’s diagnosis was fake, she could not bring Fiona down. She would not be able to let Joshua see Fiona’s true colors! That would mean that she would not be able to flush Aura, who was hiding in the dark, out. She would also not be able to get Neil and Theo to return to her.Even if she and Christian thoroughly investigated Robert’s most terrifying matter, at that moment, it looked like it was all in vain.Robert and Fiona were a team. From the beginning, it was a dead-end. She could not solve it. Looking at Luna’s pupils gradually turning lax, the light in her eyes dimming, Robert laughed smugly. He got up and kept his folder.“I hear that the mental asylum in Banyan City is tightly guarded. No one could escape. Ms. Luna, I wish you all the best.”Then, Robert opened the door and left.Luna lay in bed, her mind was in a mess.She could vaguely hear Robert using a serious tone te
Joshua sighed helplessly at her words. He reached out a hand and tidied her messy hair. “You’re spouting nonsense again.” The words that were about to leave her throat remained stuck there when she heard him. She wanted to tell him that the boy who accused her of domestic violence, of having an unstable mind, was actually Neil. She also wanted to tell him, that night at the fireworks celebration that the man she hugged whilst hidden behind the rocks on the beach was actually Theo. But his words ‘spouting nonsense’ made her swallow the truth down into her stomach again. What was the point in talking to him any further? To him, she was only ‘spouting nonsense’. So she chose to shut her mouth, no longer wasting energy to explain herself to him. However, to Joshua, Luna’s actions looked like obedience gained after her little secrets were exposed. He sighed deeply. It was all his fault. When Luna just woke up, he was busy with Nigel’s bone marrow transport and taking care of Fiona
As she spoke, she even started wiping at her tears. “If I knew Ms. Luna was in this condition, I would not have argued with her over certain matters…”Luna raised her lips in a sneer. In front of her, the figures of both Fiona and Joshua became smaller and smaller, but she could still vaguely hear Fiona’s hypocritical tone. It made her sick.…Luna was brought to the mental asylum. All of the staff members were polite and courteous to her, the man that brought her there even tended to her wounds personally. Luna looked at the man as he held his head low, focused on applying the balm on her wounds, and her eyebrows furrowed together. “Can you untie me?” The rope had bound her wrists together for the past five or six hours, the part of her skin that came in contact with the ropes was already rubbed raw, every movement brought pain that echoed in her core. But the man smiled coldly. “I’m afraid I can’t do that. If I untie you, problems will arise when I treat you later on.”Luna
Luna bit her lip and threw herself on the floor, squashing the ball of paper beneath her. Then she turned and smiled cheerily at the nurse and said, “This is fun…so fun!”She exerted all her strength into twisting and turning her body, acting as if she had really lost her mind, and turned and laughed cheekily at the nurse. The nurse must be used to seeing patients getting such attacks like this in the middle of the night, she merely frowned and slammed the door shut with a bang, shouting, “Get some sleep!”Listening to the nurse’s retreating footsteps outside the door, Luna sighed a long breath of relief and wiped at the cold sweat beading on her forehead. Finally, she took out the piece of paper hidden underneath her body. Opening the ball of paper, she saw a line of strong, big letters that read, ‘Hang in there. I’m thinking of a way to contact your friends so they can come to save you. I'll try to come up with a plan too. This is a communication device that I made. If it works
At that, he looked at Gwen. "Actually…"Steven found himself unable to finish his sentence. After a long while, he shook his head and smiled. "Forget about it.""Steven…" Gwen looked at him, and her tears fell.Her heart was not made of stone. How could she not know Steven's feelings toward her?She was silent for a long while. In the end, she stood up and slowly walked over to Steven with arms opened wide. "Give me a hug."Steven hesitated for a while, but he still stood up.They hugged."Gwen." Steven hugged her thin figure. "I have to meet you earlier in the next life so I can compete fairly with my brother."Gwen nodded with tears streaming down her face. "Okay."They thus hugged once more. Minutes later…"He's gone," said Stefan.Tears kept falling.They hugged for a while longer before pulling apart. Gwen looked at Stefan with her tear-stricken face. He had tears on his face as well.She bit her lips and reached out to wipe his tears. "A—Are these tears…yours or his?
The next day, Rachel flew from Merchant City to Sharnwick City to diagnose Anne's condition. Theo tagged along as well because he had another identity, Rachel's boyfriend."According to the report, Anne's condition is slowly recuperating." Rachel was relieved after assessing the report. "Although she is very weak, she is going to get better with lots of rest."There is nothing wrong with her vocal cords too. It could be a psychological thing that makes her lose her voice. A knot in her heart that causes it." She looked at Luna, then at John. "Considering all factors, I think that knot is Luna."Rachel continued, "John, I know Luna is the root cause of all these bad things. Being away from Luna, Joshua, and other people is going to guarantee a safer life for you and your family. But have you thought about it from Anne's point of view? Other than you and Sammie, she has her own life and her circle of friends. Never has she blamed Luna for what happened, yet you forced her to leave Lun
It was almost a miracle for Anne to willingly leave the house just to visit him!Robyn, meanwhile, sobbed at the sight.The nurse who accompanied Anne to the ward was puzzled. What was going on with these people?She snuck her phone out of her pocket and took a photo of this surreptitiously. Then, she sent it into the nurse's group chat with the caption, [What a strange family I met today.]The nurses in the group chat began gossiping about this. One of them tagged a fellow nurse named Daisy and said, [Hey, isn't this the guy who saved the old man you're looking after? What a hero!]Daisy was, at this moment, walking into Andy's room to help him change his wound dressing. She saw the message but was not able to type on her keyboard to respond, so she recorded a voice message instead. "Yes, that's the man. What's wrong with his family? What are you guys talking about?"As soon as she finished her sentence, she lifted her head and finally realized that Andy was not there.Instead,
Anne stared at John for a long time before forcibly smiling and told him in sign language, "Robyn didn't return after so long, so I got worried and came by to check on her.""Daddy, Aunt Robyn, are you two hugging?" Sammie asked, blinking innocently as she raised her head in curiosity.John and Robyn turned pale at this.It was understandable for such a young child like Sammie to misinterpret them as hugging, but what would Anne think of this?John leaped off the bed and staggered toward Anne. "Anne, it's just a misunderstanding…"However, he was still so weak that his legs could not hold up the full weight of his body at all, and he almost crumpled to the ground.Quick-witted Robyn managed to catch him before he could fall, but this gesture appeared once again rather intimate to both Anne and Sammie. Sammie furrowed her brow and asked rather indignantly, "Are you hugging again? Daddy, how can you hug Aunt Robyn like this when you've never even hugged Mommy and me like this befor
When the nurse pushed Anne to John's ward, she overheard John and Robyn fighting from the door. The fight was about how John was anxious to return home because he was worried about Anne and Sammie.However, as someone who used to work as a nurse, Robyn knew John should not leave the hospital after being shot by a gun. At least, he needed to stay in the hospital and be observed for 24 hours to make sure that he was fine before leaving the hospital. If an infection happened, John's body would crash easily and he would become weak just like Anne.In the ward, John frowned and talked with a serious tone, "I'm really fine. Get me my clothes so I can go upstairs to thank Miss Andie and go back home immediately. If Anne knows that I'm hurt, she is going to worry. She will easily be suspicious since you haven't gone back home for a long time. What if she worries about me and brings Sammie to the hospital to look for me? Can you bear yourself even just thinking about it? She's weak and Sammie
Sammie's soft and cute babyish voice melted Stefan's heart immediately. It had been quite some time since he actually put a smile on his face. "Hi, there. What's your name and how old are you?"Sammie tilted her head to look at Stefan's handsome face and smiled sweetly, "I'm Samantha but everyone calls me Sammie."Then she did not forget to introduce Anne to Stefan too. "This is my Mommy. Her name is Anne."At this point, Stefan had given all of his attention to Sammie and did not notice Sammie mentioned that her mother's name was Anne. He pinched Sammie's cheek and said, "Your Mommy is not feeling well. You have to be a good girl and take care of her, do you understand?"Sammie nodded seriously and said, "I will.""Alright, sir. I will bring them to where they want to go," the nurse saw Anne signing to her anxiously. She smiled and said, "Don't worry. I will take good care of them."The promise from the nurse gave an assurance to Stefan that they would be well taken off. He smil
This was the first time Anne brought Sammie out. Ever since she escaped from death, she became a different person—a recluse and was afraid of the sun. This situation became even worse after she became mute.The last time she left the house was two weeks ago when she had to go for surgery.However, she worried about John. In the morning, Robyn told her John was hurt and needed to stay in the hospital to rest. However, she had a hard time believing what Robyn said.After spending so many years together with John, Anne reckoned she was the one who knew John the most. If it was a minor injury, John would never want to stay in the hospital. He cared too much about her and Sammie, so he never dared to let her worry about him. Therefore, it just did not sound reasonable if John would stay in the hospital because of a small injury.Furthermore, Robyn had not returned home since the morning, which was nearly three hours since she left the house. After much consideration, she decided to call
Tara fell silent upon hearing this. She bit her lip nervously and shot Gwen a tentative glance. "I didn't mean to offend you, Gwen…" "I know." Gwen let out an exhale and interrupted Tara before she could finish, "I know you meant no harm, but I can't deny that this is something I'm still having trouble wrapping my head around. In the future, neither of you—even you, Luna—should bring this up again." Her love life was such a mess that not even she could unravel the ties, much less expect other people to understand. Tara pursed her lips and did not reply. Luna stared at Gwen in silence for a while before finally saying, "But you have to face this eventually, Gwennie. After all that you've been through with Luke, all of us hope for nothing but the best for the two of you. Even if you avoid it now, you'll have to face the truth eventually. Otherwise, are you planning on spending the rest of your life in this complicated relationship with Luke? Can you bear the thought of not being
Stefan was mildly amused by the look on her face. He extended his arms out in a gesture of defeat and said, "I never intended on ratting you out to Joshua. You three spoke about these secrets in my presence." With that, he shot Andy a rather helpless look. "Don't you agree, sir?" Andy was surprised to be called out all of a sudden. "Of course!" Although Gwen and Luke had been together for a long time, Luke had never much cared for maintaining good relations with his future father-in-law. He always thought his relationship with Gwen did not concern anyone else outside of the two of them. Combined with the fact that Andy had done some hurtful things to Gwen in the past, Luke grew even more disdainful of his future father-in-law. Because of this, he had never given Andy as much as a second glance throughout their relationship and rarely ever addressed him directly like this. The truth was, Stefan had already called out to Andy once before, during their rescue mission the day befor